ForumFerret
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They mentioned/hinted that type-in would be available.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but do you need a laptop/tablet to use this? Don't have one, won't get one. Don't have any use for apps either. So this is a big MEH for me.
From the dungeon master's end of the table, DungeonScape promises to be profoundly useful. The full text of published D&D adventures will be available, but it's not just that - it's fully integrated. Tapping on an important NPC's name pulled up game art of the character, allowing the DM to show it immediately to the players. Same with maps, which got pulled up as soon as they were needed. Hyperlinked game sections moved the DM effortlessly from area to area in a dungeon or town.
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In the future, Trapdoor will be implementing a "Forge" function that allows creators to make their own adventures and have them work precisely like official modules. Matney hopes that the community will quickly share their creations with each other, and hinted at hopes for a process to convert community content into premium official D&D work.
But what really piqued my interest is the way Chris Matney, the Managing Director, talked about it. He wasn’t talking about a character generator or an encounter builder, as I hinted at. He talked about two things: data and possibilities. “Our rule of thumb,” he said “is there is no limit to technology.” Once they get the data in, there’s nothing they can’t do with it. Or allow you to do with it. And it shows.
To them, the idea of customizing the layout of your character sheet is the most obvious thing in the world. They agreed that some people would want it to look like a traditional character sheet, but that the medium allowed them to give people other options. Expand and contract the fields, move them around, hide the bits that don’t matter to your character, put skills and ability scores next to each other and put your saving throws next to your combat stats. Whatever.
And that’s really what made me sit up and take notice. Not that this team built a character generator, but that they built a method for delivering data and they want to hand that data over to every player and DM to use, abuse, and manipulate in whatever ways they can imagine. And they seemed eager to hear what ways people want to use the data.
The character stuff talks about "selecting" your personality traits, bonds, etc.; does that preclude free-form entry for those? (For that matter, what about gender, given that much-discussed language about other options...?)
Correct me if I'm wrong, but do you need a laptop/tablet to use this? Don't have one, won't get one. Don't have any use for apps either. So this is a big MEH for me.
I obviously wasn't very clear with my question, and should have been. Sorry about that.To wit: I have a PC running Windows 7. That's it. No laptop, no tablet, no smartphone. And I know zip, zero, zilch about apps. So my question is, with all that in mind, will I be able to use DungeonScape if I bought it, or not? Yes, this is a serious question, as I'm barely computer literate.You need an electronic device...what were you hoping for that's not PC/mobile?